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Book Review of Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 18)

Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 18)
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Port Mortuary is literally a port for the dead--and the deaths are mounting, as a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high-tech highway on which she now finds herself. At the beginning of her professional career, when she accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt, Scarpetta found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two americans in South Africa. Now more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy a procedure the White House has mandated that she introduce into the private sector.